SPOILER! How I Met Your Mother: Mrs. Mosby Revealed?

Season 5, Episode 12, and it seems we’ve taken a big step toward discovering the identity of Ted’s future wife on CBS’s “How I Met Your Mother”. Now my longstanding theory on the mystery woman has been this: We’ve seen her already – as long as you’ve watched Season 3, Episode 12, “No Tomorrow”. Don’t recall that one? Here’s the recap of the episode courtesy of cbs.com:

“Ted goes out for a crazy St. Patrick’s Day with Barney, and discovers how much he’s changed. After Ted has what he considers the most legendary night, Marshall replays the messages Ted left on his voice mail when his cell phone accidentally pocket dialed, and after hearing snippets over the course of the night Ted ultimately realizes he was acting like a jerk and he doesn’t want to be that guy. Also, Marshall, Lily and Robin spend the night in Marshall and Lily’s new apartment, only to make their own shocking discovery that the apartment is crooked.”

Okay, so it was the St. Patrick’s Day/Crooked apartment episode. In the scene I’m referring to, Ted and Barney are in a crowded bar and at 13:47 (yes, I’ve done my research) Ted bumps into an attractive woman.

Ted: “Oh, I’m sorry.”
Woman: “That’s okay.”

They smile at each other and then Ted moves on to talk to Barney.

The moment had no influence at all on that episode’s story, but at the end of the show Ted narrates: “I found out years later that your mom was at that party.” Hmmm…

So I purchased S3, E12 from iTunes (all research is self-funded BTW), found the scene and grabbed a few screen captures:

So is that really the future Mrs. Ted Mosby? The actual Mother in “How I Met Your Mother”? The one all the fuss is about? It’s got to be, right? Why include this scene it’s not her? After all, the show has a history of flashing back to past episodes in order to explain current plot twists. Have I, a humble blogger from Albany, uncovered the show’s biggest flashback-twist of all? Possibly. But unless CBS confirms my theory (or issues a cease and desist order) we’ll all have to wait a bit longer to find out for sure.